Re: postgresql vs mysql - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Subject Re: postgresql vs mysql
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Msg-id 20070304145316.6a6ecba5.adsmail@wars-nicht.de
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In response to Re: postgresql vs mysql  ("Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:49:06 +1300
"Andrej Ricnik-Bay" <andrej.groups@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/23/07, Jim Nasby <decibel@decibel.org> wrote:
> > That depends greatly on what you're doing with it. Generally, as soon
> > as you start throwing a multi-user workload at it, MySQL stops
> > scaling. http://tweakers.net recently did a study on that.
> I think I recall that wikipedia uses MySQL ... they get quite a few
> hits, too, I believe.

Wikipedia is, like ./, heavily cached. Almost every answer you get
comes from a proxy, not from the database itself.


Kind regards

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                Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
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